Sea-fishing as a sport: being an account of the various kinds of sea fish, how, when, and where to catch them in their various seasons and localities by Young Lambton J. H

Author:Young, Lambton J. H
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Tags: Fishing, Fishing -- Equipment and supplies, Fishes
Publisher: London : Groombridge and sons
Published: 1865-03-25T05:00:00+00:00

It is found in abundance in the Baltic and northern seas, and is taken on the north coast of America; it is of great value as a means of support to the inhabitants of northern countries. Dr. Mill, during his tour in Shetland and the Orkneys, saw an old man and one or two boys on almost every projecting rock holding in each hand a fishing rod, and catching young coalfish as fast as they could bait their hooks and pull them in. The provincial names arc almost numberless, some only applying to them when in certain stages of growth. In the Scotch Islands the coalfish is named piltock, harbin, sillock, cooth or kuth, cuddcn, secth, sey, and gray lord; in some places they bear the name of podlcy, coalseys, and pod-lers. One peculiarity of these fish is, that they will, when attracted by bait, keep near a boat until all arc caught. Four men in two boats (two in each) have taken with lines twenty-four hundredweight iu a few hours; when they have spawned in the spring they arc very indifferent as food for the rest of the summer. They seem gradually to come south, as the young appear in the Orkneys in May, in the Tync in June, and ou the Devonshire and Cornish coast in Julv.

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